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Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2012 6:03 pm**

Is there a way to create a loop or repeat function that continuously updates the current time in a field? I have been trying to make this work with something like below:

on preOpenCard
repeat forever
put the time into fld "time"

if fld "time" is "12:00 PM" then

answer "Blah blah blah"

else
end if
end repeat
end preOpenCard

--But this just either loops the blank screen until a condition is met, or it will not put the time in the "time" field....I would like to have the loop check the time until a certain time is met then send a msg to the user, then keep looping until that time is met once again...and so on.....

thanks for the help

Posted: **Sat Apr 07, 2012 6:23 pm**

You could use something like this...

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on openCard
   setTime
end openCard

on setTime
   put the seconds into tempTime
   
   -- if tempTime = whatever then
   -- do whatever
   -- end if
   
   convert tempTime to long time
   put tempTime into fld 1
   send "setTime" to me in 1 second
end setTime

You will have to juggle with the seconds, but this should get you started

be well

Dixie

Posted: **Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:29 pm**

Thank you Dixie for taking the time to help! Im going to try this code out now...have a great week...

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